• Patient with a limb amputation
• the somatosensory areas originally associated with the limb were remapped onto face areas
• face stimulated, phenomenological experience was sensation in the ‘phantom’ limb.

(Ramachandran, Rogers-Ramachandran and Stewart, 1992)

Does vision play a role in touch perception?
George Berkeley (1685-1753)

“My Design is … to consider the Difference there is betwixt the Ideas of Sight and Touch, and whether there
be any Idea common to both senses.”

An Essay towards A New Theory of Vision (1709)

Does vision play a role in tactile acuity?
• Does viewing the body enhance the sense of touch?